President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has said a U.S. military aircraft 'with lethal technical abilities' illegally entered his country's airspace twice over the past week.

Maduro said: 'Our military aviation detected the illegal entry, for unusual espionage tasks, of the Boeing 707 E-3 Sentry, which is an airborne early warning control center system that has all the mechanisms for espionage.'

He said the plane was used 'to support communications of armed groups in war zones or to prepare actions to disable electronic equipment (of the) government, the armed forces or the economy.' Read more....